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The Cultivator, one of our oldest and among the best of our pe- 

 riodicals, on this conclusion of the journal's article, makes rather a 

 homespun but pointed comparison. " If there is only one leg to 

 the stool, and that is knocked out, the sitter thereon is at once placed 

 in imminent jeopardy." 



We from our hearts, (and in this we feel assured, we are joined 

 by a great majority of our countrymen;) sympathise with many of 

 our afflicted friends across the water, that they have not at this time 

 like ourselves, a half a dozen legs to their stool, that if one should 

 fall or be knocked out, they would not be placed in " imminent jeop- 

 ardy." 



We also, as sincerely rejoice, that from our surplus stock of legs 

 we have been enabled t* loan or present them, with a supply to re* 

 lieve them in some measure from their perilous situation. 



We will conclude this report by observing; First: that the disease 

 in question is irregular in its character, without rule or precedent, 

 bears little or no analogy to anything of the kind, that ha's appeared 

 within our memories, and perhaps for ages previous. 



Second: That the true causes for it have not yet been assigned, 

 and that the remedy to heal and subdue, or prevent it, has not yet 

 been reached. We think our premises have been sustained by the 

 facts and circumstances here adduced in their support,, and the rea- 

 sons plainly deducible from both facts and circumtsances, will in our 

 judgments fully bear us out in making these conclusions. 



Which is respectfully submitted, 



SAM'L VAN WYCK. 



Chairman. 



